Hello all;

I've set myself a bit of an ambitious task which needs to be done within the next 4 months or so. I'm attempting to write an improv live set; which will consist of a drum sequencer, a bass sequencer and a few different synths in which I'm going to want to be able to play, record and loop on the fly.

I'd like to be able to play notes on a MIDI keyboard and have them record 1st time round, saved in a sequencer and then loop until I remove them. Is it possible to do this?

So kind of program in the kick and bass in sequencer

Kick
[X] [ ] [ ] [ ] [X] [ ] [ ] [ ] [X] [ ] [ ] [ ] [X] [ ] [ ] [ ]

Bass
[ ] [X] [X] [X] [ ] [X] [X] [X] [ ] [X] [X] [X] [ ] [X] [X] [X]

But then be able to play a MIDI note on a MIDI keyboard, which will store the note number information and the note on stored in a sequencer and looped:
(the [X] in the below section played in by MIDI keyboard, quantized to the nearest available toggle box and then looped continuously)

Synth

[ ] [ ] [ ] [X] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [X] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]

Any ideas?

x

have a circulating counter go into a tabwrite and tabread, when you play the midi note have it go to the tabwrite in the appropriate index, which writes to an array. you could have multiple arrays for multiple parts

take a look at this tutorial:

modify as needed - use a notein object to set the note number in each message attached to the makenote object as the sequencer cycles through the sequence.

I try something similar i think, record my keyboard with poly and save in a previous selected step num in a pattern and then i play what i record etc etc....for the sequencer things i use 2 coll one for edit the file and for playit but i'm very noob i use two coll because was easy for me to figure.

coll is an index collector so i can save in position number x what i want, in this case the midi notes numbre from midi.

If you want i can find this experiment and send to you but i'm very new in programming and i don't know if could be useful to you.

OK so I went the route of recording into a table. Because I'm using an envelope which relies on velocity data, I made 2 tables; 1 for note number and 1 for velocity number.

For some reason the table isn't storing all of the velocity information.

See attachment

For example in the first set of notes, even though there's 3 notes there, it's only playing 2 of them and all 3 were hit at a similar velocity.
In the 2nd set of notes further along, there's no velocity information.

Now when I'm recording. it shows the data being put in the Vel table, it just goes back to 0 again.

Any one have any idea how to solve this?

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/Midis.jpg

i patched up an abstraction for looping midi. makes use of the borax object in the cyclone library, so cyclone is a must. maybe it'll be helpful. posted about it here:

http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-10265-monome-androidome-looping-abstraction

you are probably recording the note-off velocity, which
should b 0. you could use [moses] to filter the 0s.

if you have a given tempo and a fixed (maximum) length,
recording to tables is fine. otherwise, if you want to use midi
more like an audio looper, you could assemble messages from
your recorded midi-notes, and use a qlist for playback.
(i have done this in my qlist-recorder). not that well suited for
recording twenty minutes of knob twiddling, but works
fine for shorter sequences.